No. I was involved in interviewing a couple hundred people for a bunch of Sysadmin roles. I'd say 98% of the applicants were male. When a woman applied she would generally get an offer if there was even a chance she'd be decent, just in an attempt to not have the staff be 100% male.
If we were to rank a candidate on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the most qualified person that exceeds anything we could have asked for in the job posting, and 1 being someone who can't figure out a mouse.... a 5/10 female applicant would win out over an 8/10 male applicant. If anything the bar is lower and it's easier for them to get in. And if I'm being perfectly honest, our bar wasn't that high to start with for these positions, many of the positions were entry level.
I can only remember maybe 4 or 5 who interviewed. Out of those 3 got offers. One of those 3 failed to show up her first day, because she was just using the job to leverage a raise from her current employer and didn't bother to tell us until after we called after she didn't show up. So it was 2 women on a team with about 20-30 guys. We tried and that's the best we could do.
The issue isn't males systematically excluding anyone, it's a lack of applicants.
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No. I was involved in interviewing a couple hundred people for a bunch of Sysadmin roles. I'd say 98% of the applicants were male. When a woman applied she would generally get an offer if there was even a chance she'd be decent, just in an attempt to not have the staff be 100% male.
If we were to rank a candidate on a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the most qualified person that exceeds anything we could have asked for in the job posting, and 1 being someone who can't figure out a mouse.... a 5/10 female applicant would win out over an 8/10 male applicant. If anything the bar is lower and it's easier for them to get in. And if I'm being perfectly honest, our bar wasn't that high to start with for these positions, many of the positions were entry level.
I can only remember maybe 4 or 5 who interviewed. Out of those 3 got offers. One of those 3 failed to show up her first day, because she was just using the job to leverage a raise from her current employer and didn't bother to tell us until after we called after she didn't show up. So it was 2 women on a team with about 20-30 guys. We tried and that's the best we could do.
The issue isn't males systematically excluding anyone, it's a lack of applicants.